TweetJust found out that the wonderfully talented laptop artist Jeremy Flower has his own Web site. In one of his posts he talks about the Chicago high school visits of a few weeks ago, as a part of the “Ainadamar” curriculum. He has also uploaded the student-created beats. I very briefly talked to Jeremy...
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TweetThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its 2008-2009 season today. The overarching theme of “Echoes of Nations” is really close to my heart. Ever since I wrote an essay on the question of “what is a nation?” for a scholarship contest on textbookx.com, I’ve been enormously interested in the subject of nations and nationalism. It...
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TweetR.E.M. is coming out with a new album, Accelerate, soon. These guys can do nothing wrong in my book and you’ll find me at United Center on June 6 when they return to Chicago. The first single from the new album is Supernatural Superserious, a mix of eighties, nineties and new millennium R.E.M. Radiohead,...
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TweetAll the while I wasn’t blogging, two journalists have started blogging and one journalists with a blog is no longer a journalists. Let me start with the latter: Marc Geelhoed, who wrote for Time Out Chicago, has joined the dark side and we now have two Marcs with a Dutch last name working at...
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